NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
• 2.4x lower typical power consumption: 81 Watt vs 195 Watt
• 3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2048 MB
• Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5725 vs 5545
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 59.428 vs 46.086
• Around 13% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1113.788 vs 989.685
• Around 7% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 39.101 vs 36.463
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 8546 vs 7222
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 3666
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3342 vs 3306
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 8546 vs 7222
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 3666
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3342 vs 3306
• Around 15% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 2283 vs 1989

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

• Around 9% higher core clock speed: 1006 MHz vs 924 MHz
• Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1058 MHz vs 1038 MHz
• Around 55% higher texture fill rate: 128.8 billion / sec vs 83.04 GTexel / s
• Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
• Around 16% better floating-point performance: 3,090.4 gflops vs 2,657 gflops
• 2.4x more memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 2500 MHz
• Around 36% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 533 vs 391
• Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 4.645 vs 4.157
• Around 22% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 99.577 vs 81.909

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	5725 5545
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	391 533
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	18376 18431
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	59.428 46.086
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1113.788 989.685
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4.157 4.645
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	39.101 36.463
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	81.909 99.577
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8546 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3699 3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3342 3306
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	8546 7222
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3699 3666
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3342 3306
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	GPU 1 GPU 2	2283 1989

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